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Paperback. For decades, hobbits and the other fantastical creatures of Middle-earth have captured the imaginations of a fiercely loyal tribe of J R R Tolkien readers, all enhanced by the immense success of Peter Jackson's films: first 'The Lord of the Rings', and now his new 'The Hobbit'. This book explores the chief influences on J R R Tolkien's work. Num Pages: 320 pages, 46 integrated bw. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 137 x 218 x 21. Weight in Grams: 348.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC United Kingdom
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9781780769271
ISBN
9781780769271
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.22

Paperback. The latest volume of the novelist and Oscar-winning screenwriter's notebooks. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: APFB; BGLA; BJ; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 136 x 17. Weight in Grams: 274.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Carcanet Press Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9781847771407
ISBN
9781847771407
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 26.59

Paperback. Num Pages: 308 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DCF; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 134 x 202 x 21. Weight in Grams: 314.
Publisher
New Directions Publishing Corporation United States
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Condition
New
SKU
V9780811212731
ISBN
9780811212731
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 19.87

Paperback. This book is an invitation to think about why children chew pencils; why we talk to our cars, our refrigerators, our computers; rosary beads and worry beads; Cuban cigars; why we no longer wear hats that we can tip to one another and why we don't seem to long to; and what has been described as bourgcois longing. Num Pages: 380 pages, Illustrations (some col.). BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBF; DSK; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 160 x 26. Weight in Grams: 712.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
380
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226076126
ISBN
9780226076126
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 23.23

Paperback. Num Pages: 312 pages, 27. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3JJ; DSB; HBTB; JFSJ; JFSL1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 163 x 20. Weight in Grams: 522.
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
312
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801482496
ISBN
9780801482496
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.39

Hardcover. In essays on topics ranging from Teresa of Avila's mysticism to the politicized spirituality of postmodern women writers, the contributors chronicle the development of women's spiritual writing as a context for defining, challenging, and changing women's experiences in the world. Editor(s): Groover, Kristina K. Num Pages: 376 pages. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 162 x 27. Weight in Grams: 617.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
University of Notre Dame Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780268029616
ISBN
9780268029616
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 134.40

Paperback. In essays on topics ranging from Teresa of Avila's mysticism to the politicized spirituality of postmodern women writers, the contributors chronicle the development of women's spiritual writing as a context for defining, challenging, and changing women's experiences in the world. Editor(s): Groover, Kristina K. Num Pages: 376 pages. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 208 x 136 x 22. Weight in Grams: 503.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
University of Notre Dame Press Indiana
Number of pages
376
Condition
New
SKU
V9780268029623
ISBN
9780268029623
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.90

Paperback. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADF; AN; DSBH; HPN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 184 x 32. Weight in Grams: 368.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823270866
ISBN
9780823270866
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 34.36

Paperback. Bringing contemporary critical theory to bear on Beowulf, the author explores the literary originality of a poem often treated as oral and traditional. Num Pages: 220 pages, 4 half-tones. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2ABA; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5499 x 3564 x 15. Weight in Grams: 372.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
220
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804727952
ISBN
9780804727952
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 27.67

A collection of essays by allegory specialists and other scholars who engage allegory in different ways. It examines literary texts and works of art, focusing on a wide range of topics including architecture, philosophy, theatre, science, and law. Num Pages: 288 pages, 29 illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 28. Weight in Grams: 522.
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804763806
ISBN
9780804763806
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 87.59

Hardback. This book analyzes three works by sexually marginal women sometimes grouped as the "Sapphic Modernists"--Djuna Barnes's Nightwood (1936), Marguerite Yourcenar's Denier du reve (1934), and Virginia Woolf's Three Guineas (1938)--that engage, directly or indirectly, with fascist politics and ideology. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1KBB; 2ADF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5182 x 3226 x 23. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804730884
ISBN
9780804730884
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 121.71

Paperback. This book analyzes three works by sexually marginal women sometimes grouped as the "Sapphic Modernists"--Djuna Barnes's Nightwood (1936), Marguerite Yourcenar's Denier du reve (1934), and Virginia Woolf's Three Guineas (1938)--that engage, directly or indirectly, with fascist politics and ideology. Num Pages: 232 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1D; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5182 x 3226 x 13. Weight in Grams: 274.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804741675
ISBN
9780804741675
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 25.44

Paperback. Found in the Bible and in writings from as far afield as Egypt, China, Indonesia, Greece, and Russia, ring composition is too widespread to have come from a single source. Does it perhaps derive from the way the brain works? This title examines ring composition, its principles and functions, in a cross-cultural way. Series: The Terry Lectures. Num Pages: 192 pages, 14 black-&-white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 209 x 138 x 12. Weight in Grams: 224.
Publisher
Yale University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300167856
ISBN
9780300167856
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 21.55

Paperback. Num Pages: 208 pages, 1ill. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DSBF; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 300.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1991
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
New
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226092317
ISBN
9780226092317
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 29.91

Hardcover. This bracing volume collects work on Italian writers and filmmakers that engage with nonhuman animal subjectivity. These contributions address 3 major strands of philosophical thought: perceived borders between man and animals, historical and fictional crises, and human entanglement with the nonhuman and material world. Editor(s): Amberson, Deborah; Past, Elena M. Series: Italian & Italian American Studies. Num Pages: 299 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2ADT; DSB; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 144 x 217 x 22. Weight in Grams: 484.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137454751
ISBN
9781137454751
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 52.70
€ 47.15

Hardback. This book makes an argument for paying serious attention to the full complexity, formal and social, of Asian American poetry--and of minority poetry--and for rethinking how we read American poetry in general. Series: Asian America. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 28. Weight in Grams: 590.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804783651
ISBN
9780804783651
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 140.77

Hardcover. This volume of essays seeks to establish a dialogue between poetry and philosophy where each could be said to read the other and announces important new paths for a reinvigorated study of lyric poetry in the decades to come. Editor(s): Acquisto, Joseph. Num Pages: 232 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 221 x 18. Weight in Grams: 402.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
234
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137303639
ISBN
9781137303639
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.49

Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 294 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 18. Weight in Grams: 571.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
294
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691650395
ISBN
9780691650395
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 151.50

Hardback. Editor(s): Khun, K. H. Series: Griffith Institute Publications. Num Pages: 172 pages. BIC Classification: DNF; DSBB; HRCC1; HRCC8; HRCL; HRKP1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 156. Weight in Grams: 236.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Griffith Institute United Kingdom
Number of pages
172
Condition
New
SKU
V9780900416668
ISBN
9780900416668
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 70.41

Paperback. Editor(s): Levine, Susan F. Num Pages: 390 pages, illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DSB; FA; FC; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 530.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Hackett Publishing Co, Inc United States
Number of pages
390
Condition
New
SKU
V9780872204980
ISBN
9780872204980
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 15.42

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